Integrating the common risk factor approach into a social determinants framework

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 289-296

  Watt, Richard G ^a   Sheiham, Aubrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

oral health inequalities; social determinants

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; MOUTH DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; ORAL HEALTH; POLICY MAKING; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STOMATOGNATHIC DISEASES;

EID: 84864282184     PISSN: 03015661     EISSN: 16000528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.2012.00680.x     Document Type: Review

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